[Air-L] Speaker Series: Science, Health, & Data Communication

[Lyle Skains]

Join us for the Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research Spring Speaker Series
The Centre for Science, Health, and Data Communication Research invites you to our Spring 25 speaker series. Featuring researchers from BU and around the world, these online talks are open to the public and encompass topics on the exploitation of seaweed, the adoption and use of VR, communicating numbers, AI migration governance, and using AI to build ‘databases from below’.
To see abstracts, bios and register for free, please go to our Eventbrite: http://bu-shdc.eventbrite.com<http://bu-shdc.eventbrite.com/>

For a visual version of the speaker line-up see:
https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2025/02/07/join-us-for-the-centre-for-science-health-and-data-communication-research-spring-speaker-series/

19/02/25         Christine Maggs                   Sustainable exploitation of seaweeds

26/02/2025    Catherine Happer                 The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age

05/03/2025    Christopher Ball                    Beyond the Hype: Trends in Virtual Reality Adoption and Use

12/03/2025    Kaelynn Narita                      Outsourcing UK Migration Governance

19/03/2025    Bodo Winter                          The Art of Approximation: How We Communicate Numbers Across Modalities

26/03/2025    Bruno Takahashi                  An identity-based approach to inclusive science communication research and
training in the US

02/04/2025    Anna Feigenbaum                Using AI to build a ‘Database from Below’: reflections on collecting, coding and
quantifying police use of force

30/04/2025    Divina Frau-Meigs                When MIL meets AI : Design Considerations

07/05/2025    Lyle Skains                            TBC

14/05/2025    Gabriel Moreno-Esparza     Hybrid Media in the Construction of Biomedical Discourse at the NHS: the case
study of #GeordieHospital


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Trans Rights are Human Rights
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Dr. R. Lyle Skains (LIE-ul skaynz ~ she/her)
Associate Professor in Literary Media
Senior Fellow, HEA | UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor
Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University
@lskains.bsky.social<https://bsky.app/profile/lskains.bsky.social>
lskains at bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:lskains at bournemouth.ac.uk> | Staff Profile<https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/lskains> | Appointment Bookings<http://bit.ly/BookLyle>
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Playable Comms<http://playablecomms.org/>: Interactive Digital Narrative for Health & Science Communication

Winner of the 2023 N. Katherine Hayles Award<https://eliterature.org/elo-awards/> for Criticism in Electronic Literature, Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/neverending-stories-9781501364938/>



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